Austin Alexander, a founding member of the New York Bitcoin Center in 2013 - a high volume open outcry cryptocurrency exchange located in downtown Manhattan, that then sat at the nexus of the burgeoning cryptocurrency space, has spent the last four years helping to build Kraken into one of the premier digital asset exchanges, one of the few exchanges with fiat payment rails, the first to become a full reserve exchange and verify that through a third party audit, and an exchange with some of the best banking relationships in the industry. Having done thousands of media interviews and hundreds of conference appearances on the topic since 2013, Alexander is a pioneering voice for innovation in the crypto space.